Horizon in Aurora, Summer 1975

With our hearts and minds reveling in sights and sounds of Jimmy Liptak, the service organization Association of Horizon, which he co-founded, looms large.  The first "official" Horizon outing for which I have pictures (which I labeled at the time as "Horizon") is a Summer 1975 gathering in Aurora, first to what I recall as a railroad museum and later to a party at, also if I recall correctly, Jeff Ellis's house which was close by.  For once Jimmy didn't have to drive back and forth from Cicero to Aurora to pick up and later drop off Jeff, who, by the way, was not lightly built, to take him to a party that was, invariably, somewhere far away.  This outing pre-dates the first Horizon Camp, which was late December 1976 at Camp Villa Marie on Pistakee Lake in Northern Illinois.  Here are some pictures, in memory of Jimmy, and, as well, all our many other friends here who have far too soon gone before us:

(L to R:)  Ron Balsamo, Jeff Ellis, Jimmy Liptak, Dave Boffo, and Aaron Adams.

The Angelico`s showed up in force.  Sitting on Jay Serota's lap is Louise Angelico, and the skinny guy off to the right is, believe it or not, Johnny Angelico.

 
Finding an open place to sit down for a moment, in the wheelchair on the left is Mike Angelico, with (from L to R) Diane Wilferd, Timmy Sullivan, and an unidentified female (help please).  Note the Angelico brothers are both wearing bib overalls, the significance of which has been lost in the sands of time.

(L to R:)  Jay Serota, unidentified male standing, Phil Macak, and Steve Foltz.

(L to R:) Rick Balsamo and Aaron Adams

In the background is Louise Angelico talking with an unidentified man in front of a VW Microbus.  Foreground from L to R: With her head turned away from the camera is Helen Zaricor, then Mike Engels, unidentified male, Jeff  Hewitt, and, far to the right, Johnny Angelico, still wearing his bibs.  At the center of the scene, which was wherever Jimmy was, wearing his distinctive Converse All-Stars, is the One and Only Jimmy Liptak.

Rick Balsamo